Topic: Most cryptic games

[HeliosCentaur]

Shadowgate was incrediably mind stumping.  I called the counselors at Nintendo so many times, I felt like Fred Savage in The Wizard.  Ah, before internet.  $20 in phone bills, but I finished it.

[Ridureyu]

Super Metroid had two points in the game where you needed to roll into a ball and rest in the hands of a bird statue.  Nothing like this existed in Metroid before, and there was no hint that you had to do it.  Also, the first statue was extraordinarily out of the way and hard to find.

TRY TO GET THAT GRAVITY SUIT WITHOUT A WALKTHROUGH!

The game as a whole wasn't too cryptic, but tossing in something brand-new like that was just rough.

[rubenjohnson]

Legacy of Kain is the most cryptic game series I've played recently. I can't say that the games are actually scary or difficult,